Speaker
Björn Seitz
(Uni Glasgow)
Description
The PANDA experiment at the planned FAIR facility at GSI, Darmstadt aims
at measuring hadronic final states with unprecedented precision and
luminosity. Superior particle identification of charged and neutral particles
covering the full solid angle and momenta up to 15 GeV/c is mandatory to
fullfill PANDA’s physics aims to search inter alia for exotic charmed mesons
and glueballs. Detectors for particle identification comprise apart from coarse
measurements of the deposited energy in the tracking detectors, precision
Time-Of-Flight detectors, electromagnetic calorimeters, muon chambers and
last not least a sophisticated array of Cherenkov detectors based on the
DIRC principle. The central detector will feature a barrel DIRC covering the
central region and a novel disc DIRC providing particle identification
capabilities in the important, high multiplicity, forward region. These
detectors will be complemented by a more conventional RICH detector,
Time-of-Flight and calorimeters in the far forward region. The presentation
will detail the performance of the individual particle identification detectors
and approaches to relating information of different detector towards a
common performance. Special emphasis will be given to the main particle
identification detectors, the barrel DIRC and the downstream endcap disc
DIRC. The latter requires novel approaches to the construction of a DIRC
detector which will be described in detail.
Author
Björn Seitz
(Uni Glasgow)
